Ronald Reagan Webquest

Answer the following questions using the links below:1. Visit the Roper Center and answer the following:What were the popular and electoral vote results for the 1980 election?What would you say the people of the United States believed about the direction of the country?What issue was most important to the American people in 1980? Why do you think that issue was more important than the others?

2. Visit http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1980 click on the commericials below and answer the following:First view the Republican Door Slam and Safire ads. What issues is Ronald Reagan raising in these two ads?Next view the Jimmy Carter Lorraine and Bible ads. What issues is Jimmy Carter raising in these two ads?Which candidate do you think did a better job of addressing the issues that Americans cared about and why do you think their ads were more effective?

3. Visit http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-136.htm read the section titled CONSERVATISM AND THE RISE OF RONALD REAGAN and answer the following:What message did conservatives bring to the nation in 1980?What group did Jerry Falwell lead?What was, and still is, a galvanizing issue that helped to elect Reagan?Why did they call Reagan the “Great Communicator”?4. Visit http://reagan2020.us/biography/ronald_reagan_presidency.asp and read the section labeled Economics:What is Reaganomics?How did Reagan attempt to fix the economy?What were some of his economic successes and failures?